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As you'll notice from our coverage here on the site, we get to play with a fair amount of new devices. In fact, there are several tablets and smartphones sitting on my desk at the moment, including the HTC One (M8) and Samsung Galaxy S5. As those are the two new flagships we suspect many readers would love the opportunity to say the same. The thing is, we aren't saying this to brag, but instead to illustrate a point about how the hot new device may not be the best (for you).

We're still on the fence about Samsung's latest sports-oriented wearable device and one thing that we've found quite hard to swallow is that it is officially compatible with only a small number of Samsung's own devices. Unofficially, however, it seems that it is quite possible to make the Gear Fit work with smartphones from other brands, including the Nexus 5 and both HTC One M7 and M8.

HTc, which recently made overtures about software support on older handsets, has made some poignant moves of late. They separated some apps form Sense, placing them in the Play Store rather than keep them in their Android skin. Now HTC has confirmed that Sense 6.0 will be coming to the older One before June.

Stuck between an HTC One (M8) and last years’ model? Both are nice, and the camera is the same on either. The updated One (M8) might be a bit faster, but the One from 2013 is no slouch. If your bottom line is cost, we’ve taken pricing from the HTC site to make it easier to compare.

If the new HTC One had you wishing you had more money to burn, then your prayers might have just been indirectly answered. That is, if you're willing to carry around a plastic slab. HTC is now rumored to produce an HTC One M8 variant that is significantly cheaper but also trades its aluminum body for a plastic one.

Last week was almost uneventful, though it was punctuated by certain security concerns and somewhat political issues. However, it was business as usual over at CyanogenMod and now the developer team is sharing what they've been up to for the past days.

We have been taking a look at some of the image editing features available on the HTC One (M8). Some of the recent posts included a look at UFocus and Foregrounder. Both of these have some real potential, but today we are going in the opposite direction and taking a look at how the HTC One (M8) handles things with no setting adjustments and no editing.

As we had been expecting, T-Mobile has launched the HTC One (M8) this morning. T-Mobile has the One (M8) priced at $636. Those looking to make a purchase will be able to make monthly payments though. In this case that means $0 down with 24 payments of $26.50.

HTC has already taken advantage of splitting their apps from Sense, updating BlinkFeed and Gallery for the One (M8). Already updating the apps is nice, and leaves us without waiting for carrier blessings to get some added functionality. Though slight, the updates offer some functionality we’ve been wanting since launch.

With the HTC One (M8), you get a slew of great editing features. We’ve been having a lot of fun with the newest One all week, and a lot of that surrounds the photo editing features. A few days ago we brought you details on how the UFocus worked, allowing you to alter the focal point in any photo. This time we focus on Foregrounder, which takes UFocus a step further.